As accessories, collectible teapots can live in multiple rooms. Collectible teapots and bracket shelves are meant for each other somehow. This combination might be called old fashioned or sweet -- particularly with a Neoclassical Swedish half-moon style table in the mix. I feel it also can have a cottage look. No matter. For me, teapots can be utilitarian or collectible, or … [Read more...]
Bathroom Blues
What could be more natural for a blue cottage bath than the color of water? Thoughts of a light, bright and soothing paint colors for a blue cottage bath reminded me of two that work well with white tile and beadboard. Both are bathroom blues I have long admired – Farrow & Ball’s Borrowed Light and Sherwin Williams' Hinting Blue. Borrowed Light is pale but intense and … [Read more...]